Promotional Information

In this book, the authors show how living to 100 will have a
profound effect on society and the economy, and result in a
complete restructuring of everyone's professional and personal
lives.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Living: The gift of a long life 2. Financing:
Working for longer 3. The employment landscape 4. Intangibles:
Focusing on the priceless 5. Scenarios: Possible selves 6. Stages:
New building blocks 7. Money: Financing a long life 8. Time: From
recreation to re-creation 9: Relationships: The transformation of
personal lives Agenda for Change Engaging with the 100-Year Life
Notes Index

About the Author

Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at the London
Business School where she teaches an elective on the Future of Work
and directs an executive program on Human Resource Strategy. Lynda
is a fellow of the World Economic Forum, is ranked by Business
Thinkers in the top 15 in the world, and was named the best teacher
at London Business School in 2015. Andrew Scott is Professor of
Economics at London Business School, a Fellow of All Souls College,
Oxford University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research
having previously taught at Harvard and London School of Economics.
He has served as an advisor on macroeconomics to a range of
governments and central banks and was Non-Executive Director on the
UK's Financial Services Authority.

Reviews

Brilliant, timely, original, well written and utterly terrifying.
-- Niall Ferguson * Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard
University *
A fascinating and thought-provoking book ... a brilliant read for
individuals, but should be mandatory reading for our politicians.
-- Shirley Cramer CBE * Chief Executive Officer, Royal Society for
Public Health *
This timely, important, easy-to-read and intriguing book will make
you pause and think, as well as better plan your life ... Gratton
and Scott's book is a wake-up call for individuals, organizations,
governments and societies. -- Boris Groysberg * Professor of
Business Administration, Harvard Business School *
The authors understand implicitly that not only is the world as we
know it changing beyond all recognition, but the way we lead our
lives too. This book could not be more timely or necessary. --
Julia Hobsbawm * Founder and CEO, Editorial Intelligence Ltd, and
Honorary Visiting professor in Networking, Cass Business School
*
This playfully original book ... makes a compelling case that as
our lives become longer and healthier, the future might just be
very, very different from what we have known until now. -- Daron
Acemoglu * Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology *
[This] wonderful new book prepares us for the possibilities of this
brave new world of longevity, and teaches us what it will take to
thrive in it. -- Professor Herminia Ibarra * INSEAD *
Too many books bemoan the economic problems facing ageing
societies. This splendid book is quite different ... it should be
read by anyone who wants to understand how life chances and choices
will be transformed in a world where living beyond 100 will become
the norm. -- Lord Adair Turner * Senior research Fellow of the
Institute for new Economic Thinking, and previously Chairman of the
UK Pensions Commission *
To understand how and why things might change, there can be nowhere
better to start than with the fascinating The 100-Year Life. --
Baronness Alison Wolf * Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public
Sector Management at King's College, London *